" He places this information in the beginning of the letter to show investors that sales increase is a strong indication of a growing company. ... " The diluted earnings per share or the issuance of stock grew 21%, which is crucial for stockholders when choosing a company to invest in. ... Safeway's Annual Report contains advertising graphics of its products and services to assure investors that the company maintains customer loyalty to drive sales. ... " Safeway uses this image to inform investors that customers always come back because the company maintains customer loyal...

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Question 1 (a) Quantitative and qualitative information regarding a public listed company is important to its investors, as it is material enough to influence their decision-making. ... Both act as a "protector" to investors to prevent any misconduct by companies. Also, companies have to comply with the needs of its investors by providing GPFR (general-purpose financial reports) as part of the standard accounting requirements. ... Moreover it is also a requirement that comes under the Australian Stock Exchange. ... (e) In SAC2, it purposes that the major user groups need information about p...

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The first is that output grew too slowly because of sluggish demand, the second that too much was invested abroad because of imperfect capital markets and the third was that productivity stagnated because of inept entrepreneurship. ... McCloskey's opinion of British productivity was that the 1.2% per annum growth from 1870 to 1900 was a respectable level and notes that the data is very unreliable as an inaccuracy of just 3% either way in real gross national product, stock of capital, size of the labour force, or shares of capital and labour in national product then the estimate of prod...

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Unlike the fully automated online system of Dell, Ford's manual ordering and accounting procedures waste manpower, amass stock and, in the end, prolong OTD. Furthermore, many of Ford's lower tier partners lack the capital to invest into an Internet Technology (IT) infrastructure that would be necessary to fully support virtual integration. ...

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